Letter: Medicare's hidden agenda

In the past several weeks, I have tried to make appointments with my longtime physicians. One no longer would take my Medicare Advantage, the other would not accept any Medicare. If President Barack Obama is re-elected he must face the deficit problem.

In doing so, he will look to Medicare for greater savings by cutting the payments to private physicians and squeezing more from seniors. When asked about the new costs seniors would incur, the plan was so convoluted that it made it impossible to understand. Perhaps this is the reason that members of Congress signed the plan into law without reading it.

It is inevitable that the cuts to private physicians will cause many of them to discontinue their participation in Medicare. Another part of the new health plan is the appointment of 15 bureaucrats who have the power to make decisions on the treatments you can get and how much the government will pay for them. True, President Obama will never replace your Medicare with a voucher, but you will be left with a plan without the ability to choose your private physician or treatment needed.

Fellow seniors, it is time to take your heads out of the sand. Stop being frightened by the AARP's scare tactics and investigate on your own. AARP is a lobbyist group whose primary concern is their bottom-line profit, not the senior community. The only people who should be making decisions about your health care should be YOU and your doctors, not the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.